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: Pressure Sintering

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Sample Parts

Applications include machine parts of various kinds, especially when other production processes would involve considerable or difficult machining. Typical products are cams, slide blocks, levers, gears, bushings, ratchets, guides, spacers, splined parts, sprockets, pawls, and firearms.

left pre-sintered compacted shape; right post-sintered product.
Note the shrinkage between the pre and post sintered products.
digital photo of Smith & Wesson gun barrel